Re: All living Christianity is pantheistic -- "WE ARE ALSO ITS OFFSPRING"

Peter wrote:

> "Rasputin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> >This is what most Christians believe today, that creation is imperfect or in
> >bondage, and has been separated from God. This does not sound like
> >Pantheism.
> >
> I am aware of that view. However Paul himself also wrote:
>
> Acts 17:28
> For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of
> your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
>
> This is either a pantheist or panentheist concept of God.

===>Well,  aside from the fact that Paul did not write it,
it IS an expression taken from Stoicism, an
expression of Pantheistic Stoicism. In fact, it may be translated as
"in it", since "EN AUTO" may be either masculine on neuter.
So, it might read:
"For in IT we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of
your own poets have said, For we are also ITS offspring."
A very good Pantheistic statement.

        Libertarius
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